St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-14
Mr. Grattan Submits His
Views in Regard to the
Preston Track.
AProtest Made Against Short
ening the Time for the
Youngsters.
Another Wilkes Colt Brought
to st. Paul, and a Good
One.

when those Interested III Tic HOlSO
breeding problem in Minnesota look
over the list of stations of good breed
ing in this state they will have much
cause for graduation on account OF
their quality and breeding. We have
not as many stations and well bred
mares as some of the other states, but
those that we have are as good as the
best. Commodore KittsOn has Black
wood. Jr., Won Arnim and Revenue.
On the estate of the late c. a. De Graft
is Empire Wilkes, good son of George
Wilkes. At SherwOod'S stock farm we
have another great son of George Wilkes,
WOodford Mambrino. McGrath has
Theseus. the son of Administrator. by
Rvsdvk's HambetOnian. At the Preston
stock farm NJ. T. Grattan has the splen-
did representative of the MOrganS,
"Herod." At the stock farm of Thomas
. B. Marrett we have a son of
the great NutweOd that was
sold year ago at the
well-knOwn Glenview sale for $4,000
This animal is now three years old, is
shaping up fine, is sixteen hands high,
a large horse, and weighs over LOO
pounds. He is one of the last and best
horses brought into the state, judging,
of course, only from his breeding. he is
awell-prOportioned animal, with huge,
full hindqnarters, short back and good
limbs, and moves like a trOtter. He was
bred at Glenview stock farm, Louis
vile, KY, by j. c. McFerran d Co, and
foaled in 1884. He was sired by Nut
wood GOO, 2:1S3l, son of Belmont Ga,
son of AleXander'S Abdullah Is, son Of
HambletOnian 10. His dam was Either,
by WoodfOrd Mambrino 345. 2:2113, son
of MambrinO Chief II. His grand-dam
was Tulip. by Alexamder's Abdullah.
Mr.. Marrett brought him up from the
farm last week and now has him in his
stable, on the corner of Dayton avenue
and St. Adams street. He brings him
up here so as to have an opportunity
to drive him on the road this winter. 1t
is very fortunate indeed to have him
here in Minnesota, to cross onto our va
riOuSly bred mares. When crossed our
mares by BlackwoOd, Jr., Revenue, Won
Arnim, Theseus. HerOd, and the sons
of George Wilkes, it seems as though
we ought to get something fine. TrOt-
ting speed has come to be recognized as
a matter of inheritance, as the sum OF
added habits of immediate ancestors,
and as such transmitted according to
the strength of the inheritance i'll the
individual, and that can only be reliably
estimated from the number of perform
ing and producing crosses, close up.
The further they extend back, in every
direction, without essential break or
alloy, the better. Continuous, unbrOken
trotting inheritance, which represents
the fastest and the best. can not fail
to reproduce itself in a trOtting
sire who possesses the ability to trOt
fast himself. What is the inheritance
of this young stallion? His sire is Nut
wood. who scored a record of 2:1S$I in
a third heat and placed to his credit
thirty-SiX heats in 2:30 and better and
has sired the following: Felix, with a
record of 2:1S4; Dawn five years.,
2:191s; ManOn. 2:21; MenlO, 2:23;
Mamie Comet five years., 2:2319: Nut
breaker three years), 2:24179; Worm
wood, 2 :25: Woodruff -four years . :27$4
Nntwood. Jr. 2;29lS: Nutwood, the sire
of Observation-Disclosures, is stout and
powerful horse of elegant proportions.
His sire Belmont stands at the head Of
the great 'WoOdburn farm" in Ken
lucky. He is sixteen hands high and
weighs 200 pounds, and is the sire of
fifteen performers in the 2:30 list.
Either. the dam of MISUNDERSTANDING,
at the Glenview sale year ago, sold for
$1,000, demonstrating the high value in
which she is held as brood
mare. her speed having never been
developed. She was an elegant mare, a
rich bay in color, standing sixteen hands
on the best of legs and feet, weighs
I.2GO pounds, of royal breeding, and her
colts show such promise of speed as
warrants the belief that she will prove
great brood mare. Her colt by ZealOt,
by Cuyler. as three-year-Old, was able
to sh ow better than $50. Such is the
princely inheritance of speed that Nut
wood MambrinO possesses, combining
the blood of HambletOnian, MambrinO
Chief and Pilot, Jr., the three greatest
speed-producing prOgenitOrs known.
lie derives his inheritance from the
very best representatives of these fami-
lies, being rich in the blood of Maud s,
2:0S3l; Jay-Eye-See, 2:10: Goldsmith
Maid, 2:14. and Patron, with a three
year-old record of 2:191I. This is brief
outline of this colt.